"how to be good to yourself"

“It’s okay not to answer the phone. It’s perfectly fine not to reply to the text messages or to leave e-mails unanswered. It’s okay to decline the invitation to a party where all you’ll see are familiar faces and unfamiliar eyes. It’s okay not to hang out with your friends on a Saturday night because you prefer to spend the evening watching reruns of your shows. It’s okay if sometimes you feel like being by yourself is when you feel you’re being the most ‘you’. What you feel isn’t completely
valid but it is necessary because sometimes people just smother you. And you need to give yourself space to breathe. You owe it to yourself.”